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Jim Armitage

@ArmitageJim

Business editor at the Sunday Times.

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calendar_today04-05-2012 21:57:40

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Wylfa and Oldbury to be bought by Hitachi for new nuclear projects. I visited the shut-down Magnox plant at Oldbury last year: thetimes.co.uk/article/a2e2e9…

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Very proud to make my debut in the Sunday Times Magazine today. A mag I've loved and revered since I was a lad, too long ago...

Very proud to make my debut in the Sunday Times Magazine today. A mag I've loved and revered since I was a lad, too long ago...
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So what did happen to the £800bn the UK borrowed since covid? This ex City trader gives his thoughts ... thetimes.co.uk/article/confes…

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades

Young Britons need straight As to get into Russell Group institutes. But their international classmates may have bought their way in through secret routes thetimes.co.uk/article/cash-f…

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From changing designs to Covid delays, there are myriad excuses for why the new nuclear power station is billions over budget and more than a decade late thetimes.co.uk/article/why-hi…

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For anyone whose kids are working their socks off to get the grades for college, this is perhaps the most galling read so far this year. Brilliant investigation by our Insight team

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EXCLUSIVE: EY has quit as auditor to Asda amid one of its senior partners starting a romantic relationship with billionaire chief executive Mohsin Issa.

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Superdry is working up plans for a far reaching restructuring that will likely result in store closures and job cuts. Story here:

thetimes.co.uk/article/superd…

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So what's the betting that, as interest rates fall and folks start borrowing again, Hunt will claim it was his stern talk to the banks wot did it? reuters.com/business/finan…

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A few years ago advising on a bid for a British newspaper asset so aggressively opposed by the incumbent proprietors would be political & social suicide. But George Osborne clearly thinks it is not. And he is right. Times are moving fast here.

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SCOOP from Will 'Iceman' Turvill. George Osborne to advise Abu Dhabi firm on getting polotical approval for Telegraph takeover. thetimes.co.uk/article/george…

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We ran a balanced piece on Thames Water yesterday. Today I spent the whole morning waiting for their engineers to turn up for an 8am-1pm slot. When they didn't show, I was put on hold for 45 minutes before they hung up. Feeling less balanced now...

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Never paid much attention to Rebekah Vardy but her column in the Speccie today about her early life as a Jehova's Witness is surprising, sad and warmly optimistic.

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While the mega venues make millions, the grassroots music venues that feed them are going to the wall. One operator tells us why

thetimes.co.uk/article/troubl…

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Excellent reporting here from Laith on how management consultants are having to fire themselves (rather than the rest of us).
thetimes.co.uk/article/city-c…

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Entertaining Sunday read courtesy if Laith - his mad mission to Paris and back using only the Uber app. Also contains somewhat unflattering depiction of Jim Armitage ! thetimes.co.uk/article/5f5f48…

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'Purse pinched, phone nicked, then scammed — our night out in London' | ✍️ Jim Armitage

Read the full story here ⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/purse-…

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Pulling into Didcot Parkway it occurs to me this is the 3rd big shot CEO interview I've done here in under 6 months. Go Didcot!

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